Reviews
Even the second time around this year, Helene Grimaud’s Acqua (Water) concert felt new to the ear, as though refreshed by a spritz of fresh insights. The pieces in the programme are almost all thematically related to water, and intricately interconnected: Luciano Berio’s Wasserklavier was inspired by a
Music Education
Everyone who takes a music exam hopes to achieve a distinction and this needs careful preparation of the supporting tests as well as the pieces. Sight Reading Sight reading is playing or singing a previously unseen piece. Sight reading is tested in practical music exams because it is an important
Reviews
Ton Koopman’s version of Handel’s Messiah at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, was rather different from the ones typically heard all over the Anglo-Saxon world; and it was unusual enough to prompt some detailed research into the musicology of what most classical music lovers think of
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The Oslo Opera House is a fine example of contemporary architecture, quite a contrast to the opera venues which I have been to in the past. The performance of Bizet’s Carmen too, was far from traditional. The opera tells the story of a woman who breaks the stereotypes of
Interviews
Sebanti Chatterjee: Hello! Tell me a little bit about your journey. I mean how you started playing the instrument. Ahmed Mukhtar: I used to live with my family in the outskirts of Baghdad, which is the capital of Iraq, the big city. There, most of those people, came from the
News
Orchestral Development Workshop by World-renowned American Cellist Avery Waite The Bangalore School of Music’s recently-concluded 15th East West Music and Dance Encounter featuring over a 100 Indian and International Artistes, offered many of the BSM students a valuable opportunity to perform in various concerts at venues across the city.
Reviews
This concert series should have an attached disclaimer: it’s a series that is based on some of the songs sung by the original three tenors – Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras – whose current singers are Carlo Napolitano, Gian Carlo Polizzy and Emil Alekperov, all of whom have moved
Reviews
On 16th March 2017, I found myself sitting at Mumbai’s iconic Tata theatre in ring side seats to watch a fabulous choral evening. Visiting Mumbai from the USA was the Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415. Yale Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir that performs sacred music from the sixteenth
Interviews
Nikhil Sardana: The year after the Israeli Philharmonic concerts in India in 1993, Zubin and Zarin Mehta decided to set up the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation in memory of their father. What were the initial activities carried out by the foundation? Mehroo Jeejeebhoy: The Mehli Mehta Music Foundation was set
Music Education
The best thing about opera is that it takes any human emotion, and blows it up to huge proportions. There’s really no such thing as “mildly happy” or “somewhat down” in opera; even an explosive emotion like anger is amplified. With so many anger-inducing headlines on our news feeds
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Be a voyeur! Witness a classic family feud unfold – Brahms caught between the essentially percussive piano on the one hand, and the sustained, singing voices of the violin, viola and cello on the other. How does it pan out? Kolkata Classics presents “Three Strings and a Hammer” with pianist Jennifer
Know Your Composer
Shyam Benegal’s composer for most of his films, Vanraj Bhatia’s music has the unusual quality of being both loved and ignored at the same time. By Vipasha Aloukik Pai There are those who have heard his music but not his name. Play for them one of his more